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Abbott Bundy giving a tour. On May 21, Tony Karrer of eLearning Technology is hosting and providing an E-Learning Tour of which I am participating by hosting the games and simulations leg of the tour. A full description of the tour and critical information is below. It is a great line up of current trends […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →After my post Inexpensive Game Shells: Add Your Own Content, eLearning Teacher & Entrepreneur Jon Aleckson posted some information and thoughts about what Kay Chitwood the Director of Learning Innovations at Fox Valley Technical College did concerning learning objects since she is the lead on the project that lead to the creation the learning objects. […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →One of the available game engines. The folks at Wisc-Online (Wisconsin Online Resource Center) whom I’ve written about before in Library of Learning Objects have created a number of game shells that are inexpensive and available for use with students. They have: Baseball Hangman Jeopardy Match Build Your Fortune Bingo Tic Tac Toe LearningLand Case […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →As part of a National Science Foundation grant with a team consisting of members from Hofstra University, Santa Barbara City College (working with Jim Kiggens and his team), Bloomsburg University, SUNY Buffalo and a independent company called Whitebox Learning I am involved with creating a game to teach middle school student math and engineering concepts […]
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Leave a Comment (2) →If you are doing some last minute shopping, here are some games that are semi-learning related and a lot of fun. Number 5: Spanish for Everyone (Nintendo DS) Nintendo DS has a number of educational games to teach a variety of subjects. This fun game challenges the player/learner with various Spanish words and phrases. As […]
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Leave a Comment (3) →Here is some interesting results related to playing video games from the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association that was held in August. The article, Playing video games offers learning across life span, say studies, does a good job comparing the good and bad of video games and states that: “The big picture is […]
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Leave a Comment (4) →A new effort to create games for middle school students has recently been announced. Games for Learning Institute, a $3 million research effort at New York University that was publicly unveiled on Tuesday. The institute, a partnership between the Microsoft Corporation and six universities (N.Y.U., Columbia, the City University of New York, Dartmouth, Parsons the […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →An image from the physics game LunarQuest. For those of us who struggled to learn physics, here is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) teaching the fun of physics in an interactive way. Check out the description of the game called Lunar Quest. The game is not yet ready for release but is on a […]
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Leave a Comment (0) →EA, the gaming juggernaut, has created a video game that updates, in real-time information and statistics that alter how the video game is played…everyday. The game is NBA Live 09. Here is the marketing description: NBA LIVE 09 has rewritten the rules and fundamentally shifted the way you look at sports simulation games. Dynamic DNA […]
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Leave a Comment (1) →Currently I am working with a group of educators and others on the early stages of creating an educational video game to teach middle school students concepts related to engineering. The project is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Specifically, we are attempting to teach in an adventure game concepts in the areas of Science, […]
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